Norwegian Township boy takes the lead in decking the halls

A family that lives on Peach Mountain Road in Norwegian Township is spreading Christmas cheer by decking out their home for the holidays with lots of homemade and refurbished decorations.

Marsha Dudash, 1102 Peach Mountain Road, said most of the decorating is thanks to her youngest son, Jack, who is 6 years old and made many of the decorations last year.

"We're trying to do it the green way, the best way that we can every year," she said. "We try to get more of the LED lights for them. He's only 6 and he put a lot of work into them."

Outside their home, she said it was all stuff that was going to be thrown out, such as a deer decoration in which the motors weren't working.

They then wrapped the deer in tinsel and colored lights and the reindeer were looking brand new. "A lot of the stuff that we have and we use is salvaged stuff," Dudash said.

A large, colored tree outside their home once had 1,000 white lights but many didn't light, so they took it apart and put colored LED lights on it.

They have a Santa Claus from a yard sale, giant Christmas tree balls made from "hippity-hops" that they "glamorized up a bit,Installation demonstration of a antiquelampas solar panel mounting system." and candy made from cardboard, Styrofoam and ribbons.

"We're actually collecting milk jugs and next year, we want to make a giant igloo," she said.

On the inside of their home, they have seven Christmas trees - Dudash said seven is a biblical number - along with a Christmas village with miniature houses, antique decorations, dolls and Santa Claus and numerous other decorations.

All of the trees are fake because Dudash said she won't cut down a real tree, being a "treehugger," and the only time she will cut one down is if someone needs it off their property.

Jack hasn't experienced a live tree in their home yet, although Dudash wants him to experience it at least once.

Some of the decorations inside, such as a giant Christmas ball and ornaments, were displays being thrown out by area stores that they gave to her for free.

Even with all of these decorations,Just a puff of air is all it takes to turn these ledtube on or off. she said Jack wasn't satisfied and wanted to keep getting and making more.

She told him that once he has his own house someday, he can put up as many decorations as he wants. "I'm really proud of him," Dudash said.

He even has his bedroom permanently in a winter theme,Newer solarledlampsaq operating at higher power are approaching plasma machines in their ability to cut through thick materials, with a winter mural on the wall since he loves this time of the year.

Dudash said that they started decorating for Christmas right after Halloween and they light the decorations Thanksgiving night.

"We have a lot of people that pull over and you can hear the kids say, 'Mommy, look at that,' " Dudash said. "It's great."

Another tradition for the family is to put the manger set out closer to Christmas and leave it out all through January. To ensure that all the trees had lights and the club was paid, the partnership began.

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The lights “have to be replaced each year because they get frayed” by wind and vandalism, “and they would be a safety hazard,” Lumens said.

“That's why we haven't gone with LEDs on those.” LED lights are used on the wreaths and trees that decorate the light poles.

At one time, they were decorated with hundreds of incandescent lights that had to be changed each year. In 2011, they were replaced with LED lights in a partnership with the city. The LED lights won't need to be changed for five years and use considerably less electricity.

“We got to talking about the time it took and the huge amount of electricity that the lights were drawing, and the idea of replacing them with LEDs made a huge amount of sense in terms of amount of electricity drawn and saving time,” Lumens said.